does not find Terminal when running on Linux Mint 13 MATE

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I just discovered Synapse after ditching Ubuntu 12.04/Unity for Linux Mint 13 with MATE (the GNOME 2.x fork). It is really wonderful, so far better than GNOME Do and better in some ways than Quicksilver on Mac OS X. It finds everything in the Accessories menu except for the Terminal program (mate-terminal instead of gnome-terminal). No matter what I search for, it does not find the Terminal.

I attached the mate-terminal.desktop file, since I think that is the file Synapse looks at.

[Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)]

I forgot to add, I tried using the versions that are in the synapse-core-ppa-precise.list and synapse-core-testing-precise.list PPAs.

And Linux Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu/Precise 12.04

[Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)]

I tried messing around with the code, I added "MATE" as a supported environment in desktop-file-service.vala and it now finds mate-terminal.desktop, but it shows up as if it was a generic text file, and gives the "Open" option by default. I threw in the other missing registered environments from http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apb.html Here's my change:

=== modified file 'src/core/desktop-file-service.vala'
--- src/core/desktop-file-service.vala 2012-04-15 19:22:42 +0000
+++ src/core/desktop-file-service.vala 2012-07-10 03:09:34 +0000
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
       XFCE = 1 << 4,
       OLD = 1 << 5,
       UNITY = 1 << 6,
+ MATE = 1 << 7,
+ TDE = 1 << 8,
+ RAZOR = 1 << 9,

       ALL = 0x7F
     }
@@ -92,6 +95,9 @@
           case "ROX": result |= EnvironmentType.ROX; break;
           case "OLD": result |= EnvironmentType.OLD; break;
           case "UNITY": result |= EnvironmentType.UNITY; break;
+ case "MATE": result |= EnvironmentType.MATE; break;
+ case "TDE": result |= EnvironmentType.TDE; break;
+ case "RAZOR": result |= EnvironmentType.RAZOR; break;
           default: warning ("%s is not understood", env); break;
         }
       }

[Jeffrey Knight (jeffrey-knight)]

This fix might be more expedient:

"Marcin Kaczorek (kaczus) said on 2012-06-01:
In /usr/share/applications/mate-terminal.desktop comment out the line with "OnlyShowIn=MATE", this worked for me"
-- https://answers.launchpad.net/synapse-project/+question/198929

This is a bug: you should be a ble to hit ctrl+space, type "term", and get a terminal.
Can we change this default behavior in the next release ?